Political 'science'

For some reason government scientists …(who) get millions in government research grants are considered to be disinterested experts. Yet anyone who has ever taken a dime from an oil company is bought and paid for.

Of course that is nonsense. To politicians, scientists are just another interest group competing for favors. It’s pay to play. To get their grant money scientists need to deliver science that helps argue for bigger government. And they do, especially in the climate sciences.

This has been one of our major gripes with “science” in general and global-warming “science” in particular. Scientific research is an industry, and “scientists” risk losing their funding if not their livelihoods and reputations unless they continue to produce “evidence” to prove their preconceived conclusions.